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** Nicky getting kidnapped by a serial killer ImpersonatingAnOfficer; what makes this creepier is that Nicky had every reason in the world to trust a cop, even one she didn't know personally. She's their boss's granddaughter after all.

** Officer Jamie Reagan -- He has been put through ''a lot'': His fiance left him, he was tricked into a SuicideByCop, he watched his first partner Vinny bleed to death, and he has strong feelings for his second partner Eddie, but they are forced to pretend they don't have them otherwise they'll be assigned new partners. There's also the fact that many cops think he's an EntitledBastard because his father is the PC, something that is ''not'' true, but because of the relation, he has yet to be promoted to detective (despite being qualified), and thus has [[TookALevelInJerkass taken a level in jerkass.]]

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** Officer Jamie Reagan -- He has been put through ''a lot'': His fiance left him, he was tricked into a SuicideByCop, he watched his first partner Vinny bleed to death, and he has strong feelings for his second partner Eddie, but they are forced to pretend they don't have them otherwise they'll be assigned new partners. There's also the fact that many cops think he's an EntitledBastard because his father is the PC, something that is ''not'' true, but because of the relation, he has yet to be promoted to detective (despite being qualified), and thus has [[TookALevelInJerkass taken a level in jerkass.]] Then after he decides that his brand of cop is necessary exactly where he is, he gets told by several people that he needs to be more like [[CowboyCop his brother]].

** The very first line of "The Bitter End" is Jamie's partner Vinny announcing "This is it, Reagan! This is the end!" upon arriving at the Bitterman Housing Projects (nicknamed "The Bitter End" in-universe). Vinny means it as a pun on the projects' nickname...but the episode [[spoiler: ends with his death at the hands of the local gang]]. Vinny himself notes the irony when this happens, and [[spoiler: in his dying moments, he smiles and repeats to Jamie "I told you, Reagan...this is the end. It's the end, it's okay..."]] Definitely a TearJerker.** The Season 3 episode where Frank has to deal with a bigoted right-wing talk show host doing a show in the city. Mayor Poole and Rev. Potter want to cancel the show via LoopholeAbuse, but Frank allows the show to happen ... making sure that the security detail is assembled of African-American and Latino officers just to piss the off. Beginning in 2016,more and more white supremacists feel emboldened to spread their hate -- cultivating in a 2017 rally in Charlottesville, VA where one bigot ran his car into a crowd of peaceful activists protesting a white supremacy march.

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** The very first line of "The Bitter End" is Jamie's partner Vinny announcing "This is it, Reagan! This is the end!" upon arriving at the Bitterman Housing Projects (nicknamed "The Bitter End" in-universe). Vinny means it as a pun on the projects' nickname...but the episode [[spoiler: ends with his death at the hands of the local gang]]. Vinny himself notes the irony when this happens, and [[spoiler: in his dying moments, he smiles and repeats to Jamie "I told you, Reagan...this is the end. It's the end, it's okay..."]] Definitely a TearJerker.** The Season 3 episode where Frank has to deal with a bigoted right-wing talk show host doing a show in the city. Mayor Poole and Rev. Potter want to cancel the show via LoopholeAbuse, but Frank allows the show to happen ... making sure that the security detail is assembled of African-American and Latino officers just to piss the host off. Beginning in 2016,more 2016, more and more white supremacists feel emboldened to spread their hate -- cultivating culminating in a 2017 rally in Charlottesville, VA where one bigot ran his car into a crowd of peaceful activists protesting a white supremacy march.

* BrokenBase: ** The show's rather flippant attitude towards civil rights is very divisive in the light of the troubling number of controversial deaths surrounding police and African-Americans. It doesn't help that the main civil rights spokesman on the show - Rev. Potter is corrupt and usually has to resort to cliche straw arguments fabricating confrontations in order to continue his war on the NYPD, or that the show seems to support real life controversial methods like "Stop and Frisk" (which InUniverse Frank only agreed to stop supporting ''after'' Jamie pointed out that many cops were using it as a crutch), or an having entire episode dealing with the "Blue Wall of Silence" while still having all InUniverse critics of the police be obnoxious straw men of whom Potter is the most recurring.

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* BrokenBase: ** BrokenBase: The show's rather flippant attitude towards civil rights is very divisive in the light of the troubling number of controversial deaths surrounding police and African-Americans. It doesn't help that the main civil rights spokesman on the show - show, Rev. Potter Potter, is corrupt and usually has to resort to cliche straw arguments and fabricating confrontations in order to continue his war on the NYPD, or that the show seems to support real life controversial methods like "Stop and Frisk" (which InUniverse Frank only agreed to stop supporting ''after'' Jamie pointed out that many cops were using it as a crutch), or an having entire episode dealing with the "Blue Wall of Silence" while still having all InUniverse critics of the police be obnoxious straw men strawmen of whom Potter is the most recurring.

** [[TheMafiya Uri Denko]], from season 2's "Working Girls", is a ruthless ArmsDealer who Erin is prosecuting. A cold-blooded sadist who has no problem executing a man's wife in front of him in their living room over a business dispute. He would later threaten the man's children in a courtroom outburst to scare him into not testifying but still has him killed anyway after the threats scare him into running. He then puts out a hit on the surviving witness and hounds her mercilessly even going so far as going after her grandmother back in Russia as well. A sociopath of the highest order, he would step on anyone who gets in his way.** [[FauxAffablyEvil Santana]], from season 3's final two episodes ''The Bitter End'' and ''This Way Out'', is a vicious gang leader of the Los Lordes gang. He and his gang are responsible for turning the Bitterman projects into a hellhole and hounding the residents, making them scared for their lives to the point that one young mother [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] with her son to get away from him. After her death and Detective Danny Reagan's attempts to take them down, he declares war on the police department and [[CopKiller arranges for ambushes]], one of which kills Jamie's partner and friend Vinny. He later takes advantage of a mentally-impaired man by having him shoot Mayor Poole by having him think it would be a harmless prank. The shooting would leave Poole paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. After his girlfriend is arrested with his drugs, he panics and puts out a failed hit on her in prison. Santana shows that under his calm and collected demeanor is someone who cares only about himself and would step on anyone who gets in his way.

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** [[TheMafiya Uri Denko]], from season 2's "Working Girls", is a ruthless ArmsDealer who Erin is prosecuting. A prosecuting, and a cold-blooded sadist who has no problem executing executed a man's wife in front of him in their living room over a business dispute. He would later threaten threatened the man's children in a courtroom outburst to scare him into not testifying but still has him killed anyway after the threats scare him into running. He then puts out a hit on the surviving witness and hounds her mercilessly even going so far as going mercilessly, and sends men after her grandmother back in Russia as well.well (fortunately the FSB got there first). A sociopath of the highest order, he would step on anyone who gets in his way.** [[FauxAffablyEvil Santana]], from season 3's final two episodes ''The "The Bitter End'' End" and ''This "This Way Out'', Out", is a vicious gang [[GangBangers the leader of the Los Lordes gang.gang]]. He and his gang are responsible for turning the Bitterman projects into a hellhole and hounding the residents, making them scared for their lives to the point that one young mother [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] with her son to get away from him. After her death and Detective Danny Reagan's attempts to take them down, he declares war on the police department and [[CopKiller arranges for ambushes]], one of which kills Jamie's partner and friend Vinny. He later takes advantage of a mentally-impaired man by having tricking him shoot into shooting Mayor Poole by having him think it would be a harmless prank. The shooting would leave prank (leaving Poole paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.paraplegic). After his girlfriend is arrested with his drugs, he panics and puts out a failed hit on her in prison. Santana shows that under his calm and collected demeanor is someone who cares only about himself and would step on anyone who gets in his way.

* CreatorsPet: Frank. He's always right about everything, no matter what the circumstance and never seems particularly interested in listening to people who have differing opinions about more controversial police policy --- and the writers do everything in their power to make those people -- i.e. Mayor Poole always in the wrong no matter what.

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* CreatorsPet: Frank. He's always right about everything, no matter what the circumstance and never seems particularly interested in listening to people who have differing opinions about more controversial police policy --- policy, and the writers do everything in their power to make those people -- i.e. particularly Mayor Poole and Rev. Potter -- always in the wrong no matter what.

* InternetBackdraft: [[spoiler: Linda being killed via BusCrash between Seasons 7 and 8. Her death serves no purpose other than to give Danny angst, not to mention she was one of the most kind-hearted and level-headed characters on the show. The one saving grace about it is she died in a hospital helicopter accident instead of [[SacrificialLamb being killed by criminals looking to get back at Danny]].]]

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* InternetBackdraft: [[spoiler: Linda being killed via BusCrash between Seasons 7 and 8. Her death serves no purpose other than to give Danny angst, not to mention she was one of the most kind-hearted and level-headed characters on the show. The one saving grace about it is she died in a hospital helicopter accident instead of [[SacrificialLamb [[StuffedIntoTheFridge being killed by criminals looking to get back at Danny]].]]

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Reverend Potter ''is'' a dick who ''does'' take any opportunity to manufacture confrontations with the NYPD and Frank's family, but he's right on two counts: Danny ''is'' quick to resort to force and often goes too far (though somehow Potter has never caught him at a ''legitimate'' case of PoliceBrutality), and the existence of the Black Lives Matter movement in real life meant to demonstration the discrimination of police against non-whites.

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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Reverend Potter ''is'' a dick an AttentionWhore who ''does'' take any opportunity to manufacture confrontations with the NYPD and Frank's family, but he's right on two counts: Danny ''is'' quick to resort to force and often goes too far (though somehow Potter has never caught him at a ''legitimate'' case of PoliceBrutality), and the existence of the Black Lives Matter movement in real life meant to demonstration the discrimination of police against non-whites.

* CreatorsPet: Frank. He's always right about everything, no matter what the circumstance and never seems particularly interested in listening to people who have differing opinions about more controversial police policy --- and the writers do everything in their power to make those people -- i.e. Mayor Poole always in the wrong no matter what.

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** [[FauxAffablyEvil Santana]], from season 3's final two episodes ''The Bitter End'' and ''This Way Out'', is a vicious gang leader of the Los Lordes gang. He and his gang are responsible for turning the Bitterman projects into a hellhole and hounding the residents, making them scared for their lives to the point that one young mother [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] with her son to get away from him. After her death and Detective Danny Reagan's attempts to take them down, he declares war on the police department and [[CopKiller arranges for ambushes]], one of which kills Jamie's partner and friend Vinny. He later takes advantage of a mentally-impaired man by having him shoot Mayor Poole by having him think it would be a harmless prank. The shooting would leave Poole paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. After his girlfriend is arrested with his drugs, he panics and puts out a failed hit on her in prison. Santana shows that under his calm and collected demeanor is someone who cares only about himself and would step on anyone who gets in his way.

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* CreatorsPet: Frank. He's always right about everything, no matter what the circumstance and never seems particularly interested in listening to people who have differing opinions about more controversial police policy --- and the writers do everything in their power to make those people -- i.e. Mayor Poole always in the wrong no matter what.

** [[RedBaron The Phantom]], real name [[GangBangers Donald Washington]], from season 2's "The Life We Chose", is a cold-blooded crack dealer and murderer. In the beginning of the episode he ruthlessly shoots detective Cruz and kills Detective Gates, who pleads that he has three kids and to which the Phantom replies "Too bad for them". This shocks even his own cohort who was only planning on robbing them. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness The Phantom would later kill his cohort when he didn't need him anymore.]]He later goes after other members of Task Force Apache, the police sting that sold him out planning on killing all of them to keep his drug dealing business running smoothly. Greedy and wishing to make his vile business run smoothly, he cares for no one but himself and is an utter psychopath.

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** [[RedBaron The Phantom]], real name [[GangBangers Donald Washington]], from season 2's "The Life We Chose", is a cold-blooded crack dealer and murderer. In the beginning of the episode he ruthlessly shoots detective Cruz and kills Detective Gates, who pleads that he has three kids and to which the Phantom replies "Too bad for them". This shocks even his own cohort who was only planning on robbing them. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness The Phantom would later kill his cohort when he didn't need him anymore.]]He anymore]]. He later goes after other members of Task Force Apache, the police sting that sold him out planning on killing all of them to keep his drug dealing business running smoothly. Greedy and wishing to make his vile business run smoothly, he cares for no one but himself and is an utter psychopath.

** [[TheMafiya Yuri Denko]], from season 2's "Working Girls", is a ruthless ArmsDealer who Erin is prosecuting. A cold-blooded sadist who has no problem executing a man's wife in front of him in their living room over a business dispute. He would later threaten the man's children in a courtroom outburst to scare him into not testifying but still has him killed anyway after the threats scare him into running. He then puts out a hit on the surviving witness and hounds her mercilessly even going so far as going after her grandmother back in Russia as well. A sociopath of the highest order, he would step on anyone who gets in his way.

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** [[TheMafiya Yuri Uri Denko]], from season 2's "Working Girls", is a ruthless ArmsDealer who Erin is prosecuting. A cold-blooded sadist who has no problem executing a man's wife in front of him in their living room over a business dispute. He would later threaten the man's children in a courtroom outburst to scare him into not testifying but still has him killed anyway after the threats scare him into running. He then puts out a hit on the surviving witness and hounds her mercilessly even going so far as going after her grandmother back in Russia as well. A sociopath of the highest order, he would step on anyone who gets in his way.

** Dick Reed, the SerialKiller and [[SerialRapist rapist]] from season 1's "Re-Do", is a thoroughly [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] SmugSnake who gets his conviction overturned because [[OffOnATechnicality a lab tech screwed up the protocols]]. He scares his surviving victim into silence and lets one of his fanboys have her. He also beats his sister and ties her up for saying something she "shouldn't have." He shows zero remorse and no redeemable qualities and after [[SlashedThroat slitting a janitor's throat]], he finally attempts to perform his usual MO on Erin Reagan, the ADA who convicted him, before she is saved by Frank.** [[RedBaron The Phantom]], aka [[GangBangers Donald Washington]], from season 2's "The Life We Chose," is a cold-blooded crack dealer and murderer. He shoots detective Cruz and kills Detective Gates, who pleads that he has three kids, to which Phantom replies [[LackOfEmpathy "Too bad for them"]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards This shocks his cohort, who was only planning on robbing them]]. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Phantom later kills his cohort]], then goes after other members of Task Force Apache, the police sting that sold him out. ** [[TheMafiya Yuri Denko]], an {{arms dealer}} whom Erin prosecutes in season 2's "Working Girls," is a cold-blooded {{sadist}} who has no problem executing a man's wife in front of him in their living room over a business dispute. He then threatens the man's children in a courtroom outburst to scare him into not testifying, then has him killed after the threats scare him into running. He puts out a hit on the surviving witness, hounding her mercilessly, and went after her grandma back in Russia, too (the FSB got there first and protected her).

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** Dick Reed, the [[SmugSnake Richard Reed]], from season 1's "Re-Do", a vicious SerialKiller and [[SerialRapist rapist]] from season 1's "Re-Do", of women, is a thoroughly [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] SmugSnake sadist who gets thinks all women are his to use and abuse. He later has his conviction overturned because [[OffOnATechnicality a lab tech screwed up the protocols]]. He scares protocols. With help from his fan club, he terrorized his surviving victim into silence and lets decided to let one of his fanboys have her. He also Even his own kin are not safe as Richard beats his sister and ties her up for saying something she "shouldn't have." He shows zero remorse and no redeemable qualities and after Later he [[SlashedThroat slitting slits a janitor's throat]], he finally throat]] and attempts to perform his usual MO on Erin Reagan, the ADA who convicted him, before she is saved by Frank.Frank. Void of any redeeming qualities or mitigating factors, he stands as one of the very worst the Reagan family went against.** [[RedBaron The Phantom]], aka real name [[GangBangers Donald Washington]], from season 2's "The Life We Chose," Chose", is a cold-blooded crack dealer and murderer. He In the beginning of the episode he ruthlessly shoots detective Cruz and kills Detective Gates, who pleads that he has three kids, kids and to which the Phantom replies [[LackOfEmpathy "Too bad for them"]]. [[EvenEvilHasStandards them". This shocks even his cohort, own cohort who was only planning on robbing them]]. them. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness The Phantom would later kills kill his cohort]], then cohort when he didn't need him anymore.]]He later goes after other members of Task Force Apache, the police sting that sold him out. out planning on killing all of them to keep his drug dealing business running smoothly. Greedy and wishing to make his vile business run smoothly, he cares for no one but himself and is an utter psychopath.** [[TheMafiya Yuri Denko]], an {{arms dealer}} whom Erin prosecutes in from season 2's "Working Girls," Girls", is a ruthless ArmsDealer who Erin is prosecuting. A cold-blooded {{sadist}} sadist who has no problem executing a man's wife in front of him in their living room over a business dispute. He then threatens would later threaten the man's children in a courtroom outburst to scare him into not testifying, then testifying but still has him killed anyway after the threats scare him into running. He then puts out a hit on the surviving witness, hounding witness and hounds her mercilessly, and went mercilessly even going so far as going after her grandma grandmother back in Russia, too (the FSB got there first and protected her).Russia as well. A sociopath of the highest order, he would step on anyone who gets in his way.

* AwesomeMusic: "Theme from ''New York, New York''" as performed by Music/FrankSinatra, plays during the Pilot, introducing the Reagan family as well as Jami's graduation from the NYPD Academy and Frank's commencement speech.

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* AwesomeMusic: "Theme from ''New York, New York''" as performed by Music/FrankSinatra, plays during the Pilot, introducing the Reagan family as well as Jami's Jamie's graduation from the NYPD Academy and Frank's commencement speech.

** The show's rather flippant attitude towards civil rights is very divisive in the light of the troubling number of controversial deaths surrounding police and African Americans. It doesn't help that the main civil rights spokesman on the show - Rev. Potter is corrupt and usually has to resort to cliche straw arguments fabricating confrontations in order to continue his war on the NYPD, or that the show seems to support real life controversial methods like "Stop and Frisk" (which InUniverse Frank only agreed to stop supporting ''after'' Jamie pointed out that many cops were using it as a crutch), or an having entire episode dealing with the "Blue Wall of Silence" while still having all InUniverse critics of the police be obnoxious straw men of whom Potter is the most recurring.

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** The show's rather flippant attitude towards civil rights is very divisive in the light of the troubling number of controversial deaths surrounding police and African Americans.African-Americans. It doesn't help that the main civil rights spokesman on the show - Rev. Potter is corrupt and usually has to resort to cliche straw arguments fabricating confrontations in order to continue his war on the NYPD, or that the show seems to support real life controversial methods like "Stop and Frisk" (which InUniverse Frank only agreed to stop supporting ''after'' Jamie pointed out that many cops were using it as a crutch), or an having entire episode dealing with the "Blue Wall of Silence" while still having all InUniverse critics of the police be obnoxious straw men of whom Potter is the most recurring.

* ReplacementScrappy: The New Mayor in Season 8, who's just the latest in a long line of left-leaning city officials whose sole narrative purpose is to disagree with certain police policies and be proven wrong by Frank; the fact she's more abrasive than Mayor Poole is, makes you wonder if the writers did this just to make a point.

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* ReplacementScrappy: The New Mayor in Season 8, who's just the latest in a long line of left-leaning city officials whose sole narrative purpose is to disagree with certain police policies and be proven wrong by Frank; the fact Frank, and she's more abrasive than Mayor Poole is, makes you wonder if the writers did this was; she's just a another liberal strawman offering nothing new to make a point.the narrative.

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